Kane Hsieh
General Partner at Root Ventures
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKane Hsieh is a General Partner at Root Ventures with 11 years of experience blending product, engineering, and early-stage investing from New York. He co-founded Brilliant Bicycles and has hands-on software engineering roots from roles at Zipline (formerly Romotive) and Microsoft, giving him fluency across hardware-driven product design and consumer software. Kane’s background in imaging at Harvard GSD and an AB in Computer Science informs a practical, design-conscious approach to technical due diligence and product strategy. Known for digging through the “email mines,” he pairs founder empathy with a builder’s mindset and a taste for elegant, vertically integrated product work.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
AB Computer Science, AB Computer Science at Harvard University
Github Skills (20)
cli8
offset6
react5
extensible5
linux5
windows5
particle5
javascript5
slack-bot4
trading4
electron4
flux4
macos4
photon3
finance3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
thelac/continental-booze-dice
Oct 2019 - Nov 2025
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 1 month
kanetronv2/kanetronv2.github.io
Feb 2015 - Nov 2019
Contributions:30 pushes in 4 years 10 months
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